Petition · past parliament
Regulate online ticket resales to stop exorbitant resales and ticket touts
Rejected
12 signatures
What the petition asks
Stricter regulation in regards to the resale of all event tickets, in order to stop exorbitant resales from touts who buy only to resell online with minutes but at hugely inflated prices.
Resale for genuine reasons to be set at ticket face value only, with the seller picking up all relisting fees
Resale for genuine reasons to be set at ticket face value only, with the seller picking up all relisting fees
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/mar/10/ministers-to-criminalise-use-of-ticket-tout-harvesting-software?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard
Why it was rejected
It was created under a fake or incomplete name.
Timeline
| 27 Sep 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 4 Oct 2017 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
12
Status
Rejected
Rejected
4 Oct 2017
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.